- It's officially released, OBS Studio version 27 is finally out, and with it comes a whole
heap of new features for live streamers and content creators. In this video, we're going to be going through the seven major new features showing you exactly what
they allow you to do and helping you set them up
for your own live streams. As always, a huge thank you to the development team behind OBS Studio. We're getting this amazing software and all the updates completely for free. So a massive thanks to them. Let's see what they've been working on. (upbeat music) Okay, so the first new feature
in OBS Studio version 27 is probably the most requested feature over the past two or three years for the development team to work on, and that is the ability to undo actions. It's something that Streamlabs OBS has had for a couple of years now, we've finally now got it
in OBS Studio as well, you can now undo and redo actions. So this one is pretty
self-explanatory really, if you make a mistake or change something
that you didn't want to, you can now simply hit
Control + Z on your keyboard or come up to edit and undo, and there's also an option to redo things by using Shift + Control + Z. Thankfully, this doesn't just apply to moving or resizing sources
around in the preview, you can basically undo any
action that affects the preview. So, adding or deleting sources, adding or deleting scenes,
changing audio levels, adding or deleting filters, essentially, any change that you can make that affects the preview,
you can now undo. Some things aren't yet supported, like changing a setting
inside of a filter, but over the past month or so, the OBS has been testing it's releases, they've been adding more and more areas where this undo feature works. So I wouldn't be surprised to see filter settings being undoable in the very near future. In my incredibly thorough
testing of this feature, I tried to see how many
steps backwards you could go with the undo feature, and
I couldn't find a limit. But, upon looking a little bit further, OBS did release a blog post stating that the limit
was now 5,000 actions. So, you're going to be covered no matter how many mistakes you make, and how many times you
need to use Control + Z. This should help with those
pixel perfect alignments when you're trying to get
your overlays exactly right or your webcam behind
your overlays perfect, and you accidentally
move a different layer. You can now just Control + Z, and go back to the state
that you're in before. So, should definitely help with alignment and setting up of your scenes and sources. Next step, we have source
transitions, that's right. Not seam transitions,
but source transitions. In OBS version 27, you can now add a transition
to each individual source for when it shows or when it hides. Simply right click on any source, choose either show or hide transition, and select which
transition you want to use. The options that you get for transitions are the exact same as seam transition, so you can fade, swipe, slide and luma wipe your sources
in and out as you please. You can even now add stinger transitions just for individual sources. So I can't wait to see what some people decide to do with that. It's also worth noting, that you can of course, set
up hotkeys in OBS Studio or use something like a Stream Deck or an app like Touch Portal to enable and disable individual sources, which will now show and hide with whatever transitions
you've set them to. Even just a simple slide transition for showing or hiding
your camera or a lens, makes things look a lot more professional than the previous hard cut. If you have a Stream Deck
or an app like Touch Portal, you can even set up some time
with macros or multi actions to do things like hiding your
webcam with the transition, then changing scene with a stinger and then revealing your webcam in the new scene with another transition. The third new feature, is there is now support
for NVIDIA's Noise Removal, directly within OBS's filters. This feature does require you to install NVIDIA's Audio Effects SDK, and currently it only supports Windows, but if you have an RTX
graphics card from NVIDIA, you no longer need to be
running NVIDIA Broadcast or RTX Voice as an app, you can simply enable
this filter through OBS. This is a super useful feature for those of you that are streaming in a non-ideal environment, where you might have air conditioning or road noise or baby
crying or a dog barking, because NVIDIA's Noise Removal has been trained specifically
on noises like that to be able to remove them whilst maintaining a crisp
level quality for your voice. To use it, first install
the Audio Effects SDK, then open up the filters
for your microphone, add a Noise Suppression filter, and then select NVIDIA Noise Removal. I'll do a quick demonstration
over on the computer to highlight the differences
between the Noise Suppression that you can now select in OBS Studio. So you have Speex, RN Noise and the new NVIDIA Noise Removal. So the first thing we need to do is create a noisy environment. (soothing blow dryer sound)
And I think we can all agree, this wouldn't be a great
listening experience for any of your viewers. So let's start by enabling
Speex Noise Suppression. So that's enabled now,
and this is how it sounds. (soothing blow dryer sound) Let's move to RNNoise, but this is RNNoise which is designed to be better quality than
Speex, but requires more CPU. And finally, let's move
to NVIDIA Noise Removal. This is the new filter
that OBS has just added in, designed to be the highest quality and not using any CPU, just the GPA. So previously, in OBS Studio, if you wanted to use a stinger transition, you would need to use a transparent video and have a moment in that video where the stinger is covering
the whole frame of the video, and that's actually, when
you would be telling OBS to do the transition
between the previous scene and the current scene. That point when your video
is covering the whole frame, OBS can then transition in the background, so it looks like a seamless transition between the two scenes with
your stinger in between. Now though, what a Track
Matte allows you to do, is display parts of the previous and current scene at the same time, so you no longer need to have a point in your stinger transition where something is
filling the whole frame. You're essentially using a second video, with the colors white, black
and then shades of gray to tell OBS which scenes
to display at what time. Now, creating a stinger transition
with Track Matte support, probably warrants its own
dedicated tutorial video, but thankfully the team of a Nerd or Die have put together a pack of
five different Matte transitions that you can download for free, and can easily be added into OBS Studio to start using this feature right away. These Matte transitions also work in your video editing software,
so you can make use of them. And for those of you that
want a little more choice, there's a pack of 20
premium Matte transitions available through the Nerd or Die store. I'll leave some links down
in the description below to both the free and paid versions if you want to check them out. So, to add a new Track
Matte Stinger transition, all you need to do is
add a new transition, select the stinger, and then
locate the stinger video file which should have the Track Matte, either on the right side or below it. Then simply check the
Use a Track Matte option, choose the correct layout,
and you should be good to go. You don't need to worry about
the transition point anymore like you did with old stingers, because OBS is using that Track Matte to know exactly which scene
to display at all times. So as you can see here,
during our transition, we can see both our previous scene and our current scene at the same time, all thanks to a Track Matte. I know my previous stringer tutorial has been super popular with you guys. So if you want to learn the next steps about how to create your own
custom Track Matte Stingers, let me know down in the comments below, and I'll prioritize
that as a video for you. Okay, I think we're up to
feature number five now, they've added a missing files dialogue, similar to those that you
see in editing programs like Premiere Pro, where you can locate the
media that is missing from your current scene setup. So whenever you launch OBS Studio or swap to a different scene collection, this will notify you if any
of the files that you're using can no longer be found, so
you can then locate them. Whilst not being a huge
feature, this is super useful, especially if you've ever
gone through the pain of moving your streaming
setup to a new PC, and then all of your assets,
your stream overlays, your text labels, all those things that you
rely on in OBS Studio, in different folders, and you need to go and re-link every single one individually. That no longer happens, you just need to relocate
one of the files, and as long as you've kept
the structure the same, OBS we'll do the rest of the work for you, and locate all of the
rest of the missing media. Feature number six is that they've added a new capture method for display capture, which allows you to capture
displays from different GPUs. This is a really important update for those of you that are
streaming from laptops, where you encounter
several black screen bugs when trying to capture displays because of the multiple GPUs
that our laptop might have. This now adds an option into
the display capture method, where it allows you to select which GPU you want to use for the capture. Hopefully, this will also help reduce the number of people
that give up on streaming when they first download OBS Studio, because they're running a laptop and they can't even seem to
capture a display properly. So, it's definitely going to be easier for new users to go live. Finally, feature number seven, is that there have been a lot
of updates across the board for non-Windows users. So Browser Docks, Twitch account
linking and built-in chat are now available for
macOS and Linux users, as well as there being now native support for Wayland in Linux. One thing to bear in mind, is that this update has been pushed out to probably millions of streamers now, and that probably there're
going to be some bugs and some hotfix updates in
the next couple of weeks. So it's worth always checking that you're running the
latest version of OBS Studio. You can always come up to the help menu and check for updates to make sure you're
running the latest version. Thanks for watching. Hopefully, you're going to get the most out of the latest version of OBS Studio. Now, if you have enjoyed the video, please do hit that thumbs up button, that really does help me out. And I'll catch you guys in the next video. Thanks. (upbeat music) Okay, so the first thing
that we need to do, is create a noisy environment, (soothing blow dryer sound) (faintly speaking) Time is money.
